I was so brain dead by the time I climbed in the car to drive home I didn’t even realize until it was too late that Yahoo maps took me home by way of New Jersey…we hit Met traffic and an accident on 87 North and stood in line behind a sea of orange and blue at the rest stop. At least they beat the Braves and everyone was happy. I had a GPS which kept telling me to go a different way, but when she let me down on the way to the hotel on the second leg I lost faith in her … oh well …

Total distance: 601.62 miles Time: 11 hrs 13 mins in a car … with four 16-year-old girls, the smell of sweaty soccer clothes and, thankfully, another mom to keep me sane …

Priceless??? I won’t even talk about the price of gas.

Next up, New Hampshire (coastal!) and Rochester (straight and boring). I think I’m going insane…